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The Jeremy Newman Papers: A New Historical Source for Colonial Kenya and the Kamba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2014

Myles Osborne
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The Jeremy Newman Papers are a new source for the study of colonial Kenya. The collection includes a variety of assorted documents, but most importantly, the transcripts of thirty-one interviews carried out by Newman in Machakos District in Kenya's Eastern Province in 1973 and 1974. Newman interviewed thirty members of the Kamba ethnic group – and one European setder – all of whom were born between approximately 1895 and 1920. The interviews range widely, touching on topics such as education, European settlement, politics, trade, the First and Second World Wars, Mau Mau, and especially the destocking episode of 1938.

Type
Archive Reports
Information
History in Africa , Volume 39 , 2012 , pp. 355 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2012

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